Mostafa Khomeini

Mostafa Khomeini (12 December 1930-23 October 1977) was an Iranian cleric and the son of the Ayatollah Khomeini. His mysterious death in 1977, along with that of Ali Shariati, was one of the causes of the Iranian Revolution.

Biography
Mostafa Khomeini was born in Qom, Iran on 12 December 1930, the son of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. He graduated from the Qom Theological Center to become a Shia cleric, and he was arrested and exiled in 1963 for taking part in is father's anti-Shahist movement. Khomeini moved to Turkey and then to Najaf, Iraq, where he lived in exile with his father. On 23 October 1977, he died under mysterious circumstances, with his father blaming the Shah's SAVAK for killing him.